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Demos

Demos

See also: demos and démos

German

Noun

Demos f

  1. plural of Demo

demos

demos

See also: Demos and démos

English

Noun

demos

  1. plural of demo

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, the people).

Noun

demos (plural demoi)

  1. (political science) The common populace of a state, the people.
  2. (modern Greece) municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together
  3. (historical, Ancient Greece) the ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state
  4. (historical, Ancient Greece) the term for an ancient subdivision of Attica

Anagrams


Galician

Verb

demos

  1. first-person plural preterite indicative of dar

Latin

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek [the common] people ([the common] people).

Pronunciation 1

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdeː.mos/, [ˈdeː.mɔs]

Noun

dēmos m (genitive dēmī); second declension

  1. a tract of land, a demos, a deme
  2. the inhabitants of a dēmos: people, especially the common people
    • AD 77–79, Gaius Plinius Secundus (author), Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor), Naturalis Historia (1906), book xxxv, chapter 30:
      pinxit demon atheniensium argumento quoque ingenioso. ostendebat namque varium: iracundum iniustum inconstantem, eundem exorabilem clementem misericordem; gloriosum…, excelsum humilem, ferocem fugacemque et omnia pariter.
      In his allegorical picture of the People of Athens, he has displayed singular ingenuity in the treatment of his subject; for in representing it, he had to depict it as at once fickle, choleric, unjust, and versatile; while, again, he had equally to show its attributes of implacability and clemency, compassionateness and pride, loftiness and humility, fierceness and timidity — and all these at once. ― translation from: John Bostock, The Natural History (1855), book xxxv, chap. 36
Declension

Second declension, Greek type.

Case Singular Plural
nominative dēmos dēmī
genitive dēmī dēmōrum
dative dēmō dēmīs
accusative dēmon
dēmum
dēmōs
ablative dēmō dēmīs
vocative dēme dēmī
Synonyms
  • (tract of land): pāgus (Pure Latin)
  • (inhabitants of a demos):
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References

Pronunciation 2

Noun

dēmōs m

  1. accusative plural of dēmos

Portuguese

Noun

demos

  1. plural of demo

Spanish

Verb

demos

  1. First-person plural (nosotros, nosotras) present subjunctive form of dar.
  2. First-person plural (nosotros, nosotras) imperative form of dar.